Robin on sexism and pop music, the high-school protests, ageism and lowering the age to vote—and reversing the arrow of time?! Guest: Nina Khrushcheva on Putin's real motives and how current US policy aids and abets him. Plus Surrealism Corner!

Robin on striking teachers, marching students, cranky nuns, and defining "articulate." Guests: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus on "Say Her Name" activism; Helen LaKelly Hunt on her book about erasure of early 19th-century feminists of faith.

Robin on the hidden history of the Second Amendment, Hope Hicks, sexism at the BBC, Boko Haram's return, and China's Winnie the Pooh. Guests: Charlotte Gordon on the feminist origins of "Frankenstein"; Masih Alinejad on women's uprising in Iran.

Robin on repeated school shootings, systemic sexism, fake "followers," the Right's assault on the courts, and how #MeToo just might bring down Trump. Guest: Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. Plus Surrealism Corner.

Robin on WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter and wife-battery, and on House Dem. Leader Nancy Pelosi's historic Dreamers plea. Guests: historian Linda Gordon on her Second Coming of the KKK book; Ellen Pao on how she shook up Silicon Valley pre-Me Too.

Robin on the abuse-survival testimony of the former gymnasts in Michigan, DACA, and the Museum of the Bible. Guests: Ruth Mandel and Debbie Walsh of The Center for American Women and Politics discuss the historic numbers of women candidates in 2018.

Robin on the Women's March anniversary, WeAreMarchOn.org, sea turtles—& a government shutdown? Guests: Young Jean Lee, Broadway's first Asian American woman playwright; Yoruba Richen on her film about anti-abortion crusades on black communities.

Special Holiday Solstice Show: For relief from 2017's traumatic news, an all poetry program with Robin reading from her work, including the world premiere of poems from her new book, Dark Matter, forthcoming spring 2018 (Spinifex Press).

Robin on real-life solutions to workplace sexual abuse. Guests: Heidi Hartmann of the Institute for Women's Policy Research on the need for more women economists; columnist Rafia Zakaria on what Global South women actually want from "development."

Robin on what really happens when women legislate, unmasking Trump's Generals, and one fine sheriff. Guests: Polly Rodriguez on “make love, not porn”—Women of Sex Tech; Angela Dodson on her book of ALL the suffragists—including women of color.

Robin on Trump vs. mourning military families, and the kilonova in the Hydra constellation. Guests: Shaughnessy Naughton on a new push to get scientists into political office; Judaline Cassidy discusses her passion for plumbing and for mentoring.

Robin on Aung San Suu Kyi, modern slavery, deconstructing deconstructionism, and "the genuine article." Guest: Ani DiFranco in an in-depth personal interview. Also Surrealism Corner, and the new feature, "A Word From My Lower Self."